civic_rice
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here's a short How-To on how to re-ground a Civic (or any car for that matter)
Hope you like it!
After completing, i've noticed a slightly higher but 'fresher' idle (93 civic dx)
This is the second vehicle I've done this with. I also did a '87 CRX and noticed the same higher 'fresher' idle, and the stereo pounded alot louder.
- roughly 3 feet of 4 guage audio cable
- 5 4 guage ring terminals
buy your terminals at West-Can auto parts, they're $2.75/2 inc. tax
buy your cable anywhere, should be about $9 for 3 feet
***Quick Directions***:
strip the ends of the cable, apply the ring terminals
clamp/solder the ring terminals on the cable ends
wow, that was hard.
-locate the ground wire
-undo the bolts, bolt on the new wire
-locate the ground wire
-undo the bolts, bolt on the new wire
(this one is optional, if you do it, be sure to buy a nice Audio battery terminal off Ebay or something for one of the cable ends)
and there she is, done!
any questions, comments ---> direct them to civic_rice@hotmail.com
Here's a link to my original post on VanCivics if you're interested in what other's have had to say:
http://www.vancouvercivics.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=13553
Hope you like it!
After completing, i've noticed a slightly higher but 'fresher' idle (93 civic dx)
This is the second vehicle I've done this with. I also did a '87 CRX and noticed the same higher 'fresher' idle, and the stereo pounded alot louder.
- roughly 3 feet of 4 guage audio cable
- 5 4 guage ring terminals
buy your terminals at West-Can auto parts, they're $2.75/2 inc. tax
buy your cable anywhere, should be about $9 for 3 feet
***Quick Directions***:
strip the ends of the cable, apply the ring terminals
clamp/solder the ring terminals on the cable ends
wow, that was hard.
-locate the ground wire
-undo the bolts, bolt on the new wire
-locate the ground wire
-undo the bolts, bolt on the new wire
(this one is optional, if you do it, be sure to buy a nice Audio battery terminal off Ebay or something for one of the cable ends)
and there she is, done!
any questions, comments ---> direct them to civic_rice@hotmail.com
Here's a link to my original post on VanCivics if you're interested in what other's have had to say:
http://www.vancouvercivics.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=13553